Video Game Visions - Xbox 360, PS3 & Nintendo Wii!

Monday, November 16, 2009

(Band Hero for NDS Lite)

The latest in the line of interactive musical games is Band Hero for the Sony Playstation 3, Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii and Nintendo DS. It officially arrived on November 3, 2009. This new hit game features musical band instrument controllers for 65 chart topping hit songs from the likes of Evanescence, Maroon 5, Jackson 5, Fallout Boy and Taylor Swift. Miss Swift stars in the Band Hero commercial which begins as a spoof of the classic Tom Hanks Risky Business movie scene. It then launches into a full out concert for Taylor Swift singing her hit song "Love Story". Sorry folks, Taylor's not in her undies, this is a G rated ad!

Also appearing in the ad as Taylor Swift's backup band are Pete Wentz (Fall Out Boy) on guitar, Rivers Cuomo (Weezer) on guitar, and Travis Barker (Blink 182) on drums. Check out the official Band Hero TV commercial via the YouTube video below!

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

The big news heard round the world which emanated from GameCom is that the Sony PS3 Slim video game console will be a reality. It's scheduled to hit shelves next month and is already available for pre-orders at a lower price than the original.

The new Playstation 3 unit features a much smaller size (about 35% smaller) than the original PS3's. It includes the standard Wi-Fi, Blu-Ray player and a 120 gig hard drive storage unit, so you can watch DVD's, play CD's and store other media files.

Video gamers have already started buzzing about this hot new Sony PS3 slim game console, which will be competitively priced at just $299, which is $100 less than the original PS3's were. With that, Sony will be doing a price drop to reduce the price of all PS3's, and try to phase out the older units at $299. But who will want the old when the new is so much slicker cooler and smaller? It also is quieter and consumes less energy. There will be a new 3.0 firmware upgrade for it, also coming soon. Well worth the wait and the money...Only problem is it seems this ps3 slim is not backwards compatible. Oh well, we can't get everything in a video game system....yet!